My latest idea for a story centers around how magic items are created in a fantasy setting. The enchanter effectively tells the item what its purpose is. Those capable of the craft can hear an echo of that purpose when holding the item. [Male character] is so good at his craft that the king only…
“It is important you strike at the edge of the market,” Valian said to the Brothers Urgo. “I will set heel to horse and take Lady Ginelle away to safety. You can take what pleasure you will with Sebastine, as long as he is dead when you’re done.” The Brothers Urgo were the most muscles…
I admit that this page is mostly a notebook at this point where I write ideas I can revisit at a later date. I’m okay with that. 2019 was a year of illness for me. I developed agoraphobia that kept me inside for over three months and I’m chalking most of the year up as…
Clearly there was an uptick in blog posting earlier this year. Three times in as many months! In an age where blog posting is effectively dead if you don’t have a platform (or if it isn’t your primary focus), we’ll call that a surprising increase in activity. And then…NOTHING! Until today. The cool thing is,…
Legacy games are all the rage in the board game world at the moment. My Tuesday group has already completed Seafall and Gloomhave and are 7/12 through Charterstone. I even have my own that I worked on over Christmas that I hope to devote more time to if work wasn’t trying to kill me (believe…
I was in the mood to overwrite something tonight. I had a glimmer of an idea during a drive to New Brunswick that I’m letting percolate in my brain. I thought I’d do a quick wind sprint and make it as thick and sappy as I could. DREAM CHASING Amid the darkness of sleep, dreams…
So I’m working toward my Masters of Science in Instructional Design and Technology (how to make education better, basically) and I’ve found that I can’t write a research paper every week, do my regular job, and write a novel all at the same time. However, I have a three-month break coming up, starting next week, and…
I’ve been bumbling around a concept for a few weeks and while I was watching “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” (which you should totally watch, because it’s awesome), a few lines popped into my head and I figured I should write them down before I go to bed. So here they are: Victoria wasn’t always…
I always take a little break between manuscripts. I consider it a “voice reset.” I used to be so jazzed I would immediately roll into a new project, but I found the voice of the next project sounded exactly the same as the one I had just finished. It inevitably led to a lot of…
This post should almost be labeled a redux because I’ve posted so much of the conversation before. I am once again dealing with that balancing act of craft vs voice. I think more aspiring writers would do well to actually listen, absorb, and apply the feedback they receive from agents when they query. Too often…